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Tlf Foundation a Nj Non-Profit Corp at a glance

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Tlf Foundation a Nj Non-Profit Corp

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$177kArts & Culture$83kEnvironment$30kHuman Services$15kRecreation & Sports$15kEducation$11kCrime & Legal$3k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$540k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN PROMISE MINISTRIES$17,400
CHILDRENSONG OF NEW JERSEY$12,500
GREATER PHILADELPHIA GAMER SYMPHONY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Center for Family Services Inc: $6k → 12%One Accord Inc: $6k → 12%One Accord Inc (Kids Alley): $800 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$298k · 6 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$298k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+45%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentScience & TechEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UM
    URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +27%
  • CO
    CHILDRENSONG OF NEW JERSEY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $73k · revenue +172% · 30% of their budget
  • PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • OA
    One AccordInc
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +31%
  • SJ
    South Jersey Innovation Center
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +21%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cape May Point Science Center
Arts & Culture
2
Pta New Jersey Congress of Parents and Teachers

Child advocacy

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3
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance

New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, Inc. Is an alliance of New Jersey Organizations and Individuals committed to creating healthy, sustainable and just communities by eliminating environmental injustices in low income and…

Environment
4
North Central Jersey Association of Realtors Inc

To offer education to its members as it pertains to real estate and other various issues

Community Improvement
5
New Jersey School-Age Child Care Coalition

To foster the growth, quality and sustainability of out-of-school time providers, professionals and organizations to expand access and opportunity for new jerseys youth and families.

Human Services
6
Central Jersey Community Center

Central Jersey Community Center provided a diverse range of educational programs and activities aimed at community enrichment. These included structured sports programming to promote physical well-being and teamwork, as well as classes…

Human Services
7
Central Nj Judaic Studies Initiative

Central NJ Judaic Studies Initiative is a non-profit organization that was established to provide the infrastructure for an after-school religious program for children of elementary school age level. The goal is to encourage Jewish…

Religion
8
New Jersey Alliance for Culture Change
Health
9
Pta New Jersey Congress of Parents & Teachers

To promote the welfare of students and foster relationships between parents, teachers and students

—
10
Pta New Jersey Congress of Parents

Student support/enrichment/education

—
11
New Jersey Youth Chorus Inc

The njyc provides quality music education to encourage young people's love and appreciation of choral music while nurturing their individual growth and development. using the power of music we foster a child's creative and intellectual…

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12
Pta New Jersey Congress of Parents & Teachers

Provide charitable programs for benefit of school aged children

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Jersey Innovation Center; the most unlike its peers is Neighborhood Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES: $171,588 · OtherURBANPROMISE MINISTRIESCamp to Belong River Valley: $15,000 · OtherCamp to Belong River ValleyGREATER PHILADELPHIA GAMER SYMPHONY: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $12,600 · Other+4 moreCHILDRENSONG OF NEW JERSEY: $72,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENSONG OF NEW JERS…PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $30,000 · EnvironmentPINELANDS …ONE ACCORD T/A KIDS ALLEY: $6,300 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $5,950 · Human ServicesSouth Jersey Innovation Center: $5,222 · Science & TechJERSEYSTEM INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$209,188Arts & Culture$72,500Environment$30,000Human Services$12,250Science & Tech$5,222Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetURBANPROMISE MINISTRIES: $171,588 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDRENSONG OF NEW JERSEY: $72,500 over 7y, 30% of budgetPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetONE ACCORD T/A KIDS ALLEY: $6,300 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $5,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Jersey Innovation Center: $5,222 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJERSEYSTEM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetBURLINGTON COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION: $3,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pseg Foundation IncInvestors Foundation …The Philadelphia Foun…Community Foundation …Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Pseg Foundation IncNJ13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pseg Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tlf Foundation a Nj Non-Profit Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tlf Foundation a Nj Non-Profit Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Center for Family Services: 68% of income from government
  • Pinelands Preservation Alliance: 1% of income from government
  • Urbanpromise Ministries: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Tlf Foundation a Nj Non-Profit Corp through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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